Vickie Paladino is a vile fascist, racist, Islamophobe, and a disgrace to Queens. She rains hatred down upon our neighbors, calls for the murder of her political opponents, and is now demanding the denaturalization & deportation of Muslim Americans. @council.nyc.gov must expel her.

A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker. This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.

Today's newsletter: The same machine that destroyed 600 lives over Charlie Kirk has nothing to say about Trump mocking Rob Reiner. www.readtpa.com/p/the-rules-...

Right-wing influencers made up that Democrats celebrated Charlie Kirk’s murder, and tried an up-is-down lie that they’d never celebrate political violence, then Trump smashed though that Kool Aid Man style—as per his wont—so the influencers are now pretending that’s unusual and that they dislike it.

There are only three acceptable types of Chanuka music: - classic folk songs in a traditional Jewish language (Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, etc) - some frizzy haired lady wailing with a guitar - Adam Sandler naming Jews That’s it

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

Exactly, Bret Stephens is a racist, cynical asshole, and the NYT disgraces itself by keeping him on staff. Turning tragedy into political theater isn’t commentary it’s moral bankruptcy.

Heroic bystander, Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim man who put his own life on the line, and saved so many Jews. True safety in solidarity in action

This is so much of what community and solidarity, regardless of religious background, is about ❤️‍🩹 Our safety is in solidarity:

רָעוֹת שָׂבְעָה נַפְשִׁי / בְּיָגוֹן כֹּחִי כָּלָה 😢 My spirit is fed up with misery /my strength is spent with grief 💔 As millions of Jews are getting ready to light the first Chanukah candle, we are crying with our Jewish community in Sydney. At least 11 murdered and 29 injured at a Hanukkah Celebration 😭 1/4

Full Alt Text of this wonderful idea for 2026 Public Library Treasure Hunt.

Interlibrary loan is also being inundated everywhere it sounds like. Requests for scans of items that don't exist. Someone has to search for them and respond.

I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary. www.icrc.org/en/article/i...

Florida-horned anteater

This just gave me a flashback to when Trey and Matt did their "woops climate change real actually?????" episode

Berkeley met Santa Claus today

En dashes: They’re here to serve.

excited to award my kids the Burger King Peace Prize this weekend

I'm so SO sorry to do this but it's stuck in my head and this is the only way to get it out. Please know I hate myself for doing this more than you ever could hate me for it: COVFIFA

I didn’t know #nytxw Puzzle Mania came out so early this year! My holiday season doesn’t start until I’ve begun solving the Super Mega Big F’ing Crossword

I guess the B really does stand for bacon

The Renee Richards factoid that keeps poking my brain, is that the guy who outed her as trans, who previously outed Elizabeth Carmichael as trans, was Dick Carlson - Tucker's dad. I guess transphobia runs in the family. (Link to Dick Carlson's obit which briefly recounts the above) archive.ph/obLAU

Happy to join @natanlast.bsky.social and Wyna Liu for a fun crossword event sponsored by JASA in NYC on 12/7. Come one, come all! Your ticket includes a copy of Natan's new book ACROSS THE UNIVERSE and supports a great cause. jasa.org/events/cross...

I definitely love having to explain that when an ancient Jewish prayer talks about Israel it’s not a reference to the modern nation-state

For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss: It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!! www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...

We are disgusted to see yet another round of slanderous attacks on @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social , join JFREJ in sharing your support for @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social ❤️, sign your name at jfrej.org/msrachel

I don’t believe in the supernatural and align myself with various woo-debunking movements. Would my murder by a bigfoot / lake monster be ironic or apt? 🤔

if you ask students to list the causes of the Irish famine and they just say “the Irish are demonic” can you really not fail that kid?

if this is discrimination, I’m genuinely unsure what you’re supposed to do when a student responds to a prompt with some religious gibberish

I’m only the kind of doctor who can do an emergency scan of your sonnet but also my mom had Addison’s disease so I know the idea that a bath soak “erases cortisol” is extremely stupid

my unequivocal playwright hero. I loved his work so much. all I have ever wanted to do with my life was write something that made other people feel the way “Arcadia” made me feel. what a titan

Stoppard's stage directions for the desk clutter in Arcadia lives rent free in my head. A playwright and director who truly understood all parts of a theatre production working together to make magic. Rest in peace.

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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

“It makes me so happy. To be back at the beginning, knowing almost nothing.” -Arcadia, Tom Stoppard, zichrono l’bracha

I built up so many swears on my old twitter account goddamnit

"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.

Allow me to be pedantic for a second: It’s called the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, not the Macy’s Day Parade. Today is not “Macy’s Day”

Folks, two things can true at the same time. These 2 National Guard members should not have been shot, and it's a disgusting act of violence. And, Trump + Miller have deliberately deployed them to incite division { violence. That's part of Miller's plan. They have no reason to be in our cities.

Thanksgiving came early for hatemongers, nativists, and bigots who will use this to be anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim but never have a word to say when shooters and terrorists are white men. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

I am clearly a self-hating potato

ADA Rafael Barba does NOT share food

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My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?

must not lick the forbidden ice cream

Thanksgiving is Oven Tetris level 10